Impulse Dynamics' Optimizer Receives nod of CFDA

Dr. Simos Kedikoglou, CEO of Impulse Dynamics announced about the approval of Impulse Dynamics' Optimizer system by Chin...

December 19, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Gilead’s patent for ‘Hepatitis C’ faces legal challenges

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international, independent medical humanitarian organization, MSF has filed a lega...

December 18, 2017 | Monday | Regulatory
Scientists in China develop novel photo thermal therapy

A team of scientists at China are working with nanorods made of bismuth sulfide to kill tumor cells with heat when they ...

December 13, 2017 | Wednesday | News
I-Mab signs $120 M deal with MorphoSys

German biotech MorphoSys has collaborated with Shanghai-based I-Mab Biopharma granting the latter an exclusive regional ...

December 5, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Destiny Pharma collaborates with Chinese firm

UK-based biotech Destiny Pharma has entered into a collaboration with CMS, a subsidiary of China Medical System. Th...

December 4, 2017 | Monday | News
Pfizer inks drug development and commercialization deal with Basilea Pharma

Global pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has inked a strategic deal with Basilea Pharmaceutical, an international biopharmaceu...

December 1, 2017 | Friday | News
China’s success: first human implantation of a retrievable transcatheter aortic valve

Prof. Wang Jian'an, president of SAHZU, announced that China has completed its first successful human implantation of a ...

November 29, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Announcement of Fullerton Health to Invest through Ping An Capita

Fullerton Health, a leading provider of corporate healthcare solutions across Asia Pacific, announced a significant inve...

November 28, 2017 | Tuesday | News
AstraZeneca inks a pact with Chinese FIIF

A strategic joint venture has been announced by AstraZeneca with the Chinese Future Industry Investment Fund (FIIF) to f...

November 28, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Mei Hing Chak becomes China’s first Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy recipient

The 2017 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy awards ceremony was recently held in New York.The Carnegie institutions presente...

November 23, 2017 | Thursday | News
Chinese researchers develop electronic skin

A team of researchers at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China has developed a jellyfish-inspired e...

November 22, 2017 | Wednesday | News
WACKER Further Expands its Production and R&D Capacities in China

For further strengthen its market position in the region, the Munich-based chemical company Wacker announced expansion a...

November 16, 2017 | Thursday | News
Cardinal Health sells off China business to Shanghai Pharma

The government owned Shanghai Pharma is giving out more than $550 million to buy the China operations of U.S.-based Card...

November 16, 2017 | Thursday | News
HIIA members to focus on improving pharmaceutical ecosystem

A consortium of leading Chinese pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors, venture capital partners and e-commerce comp...

November 14, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Fosun Pharma to buy stake in Shenzhen Hospital

A drugmaker controlled by Chinese conglomerate Fosun International, Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) has agreed to ...

November 13, 2017 | Monday | News
Shanghai based biotech firm raises $ 32M

Shanghai-based biotech startup EOC Pharma has raised $32 million from Chinese investors to help it bring a series of can...

November 10, 2017 | Friday | News
Researchers develop an app for rheumatoid arthritis

A group of researchers at multiple institutions in China have collaborated to develop the Smart System of Disease Manage...

November 7, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Teva to set up JV with Guangzhou Pharma

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd is planning to set up a joint venture with Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Holdings Ltd to m...

November 6, 2017 | Monday | News
CFDA accepts Eisai's NDA for cancer drug

 Eisai Co., Ltd. announced that the China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) has accepted for review a New Drug Ap...

October 31, 2017 | Tuesday | News
China's Fosun to acquire French drug distributor Tridem

China’s Fosun Pharma recently announced the acquisition of French drug distributor, Tridem for up to 63 million eu...

October 30, 2017 | Monday | News
China’s maiden billion-dollar takeover of an Indian pharma giant

Creating a new chapter in the history of China and Indian pharmaceutical industry, China’s drug giant Fosun Pharma...

October 26, 2017 | Thursday | Analysis
China approves domestic Ebola vaccine

The military-backed Bioengineering Institute of the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences and private drugmaker C...

October 26, 2017 | Thursday | News
Chinese scientists develop novel health gadgets

A group of scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a magical suit fitted with large-area textile ...

October 25, 2017 | Wednesday | News
WuXi AppTec acquires US clinical research firm ResearchPoint Global

In line with its expansion strategies, Shanghai based biotechnology and medical-device developer WuXi AppTec Group has a...

October 20, 2017 | Friday | News
Shanghai pharma bids for Cardinal Health's China business

In a filing with Shanghai stock exchange, Shanghai pharma said that it has Pharma submitted two non-binding bids to buy ...

October 20, 2017 | Friday | News
China Biologic plans acquisition of TianXinFu

The fully integrated plasma based biopharmaceutical company China Biologic has agreed to acquire 80 per cent equity inte...

October 13, 2017 | Friday | News
China accelerates new drug approvals

Beijing recently announced new rules that will speed up approvals of medicines and medical devices, easing bottlenecks i...

October 9, 2017 | Monday | News
Fosun pharma now looking onto acquiring Symbiotec

Weeks after Chinese pharmaceutical giant Fosun tweaked its acquisition of Hyderabad-based Gland Pharma for $1 billion (R...

October 3, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Chinese researchers use traditional ink for cancer treatment

A group of Chinese researchers have reported that a Chinese traditional ink could noninvasively and effectively treat ca...

September 28, 2017 | Thursday | News
Simcere, Amgen to bring in 4 biosimilars to China

Chinese pharmaceutical firm, Simcere, has inked an exclusive agreement with Amgen to co-develop and commercialize four b...

September 27, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Shandong to acquire Argon Medical Devices

Shandong Weigao Group Medical Polymer Co. has agreed to buy closely held Argon Medical Devices Inc. for $850 million, co...

September 26, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Merck opens Bio-development centre in Shanghai

Merck, a leading science and technology company, announced the opening of its first BioReliance End-to-End Biodevelopmen...

September 25, 2017 | Monday | News
WuXi raises Series B funding

WuXi NextCODE, a global platform for genomic data, has successfully raised $240 million in Series B financing. The compa...

September 21, 2017 | Thursday | News
Fosun pharma cuts stake to 74 % in Gland Pharma deal

  After the long wait, Chinese firm Fosun pharma has decided to settle with 74 percent stake of India’s Glan...

September 19, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Siemens collaborates with Tsinghua for robotics research center

German industrial group Siemens AG has entered into a partnership with Tsinghua University, one of Siemens' center of kn...

September 19, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Proprietary firm launches healthcare fund in China

Eight Roads Ventures, the proprietary investment arm of Fidelity International Ltd, has launched its first dedicated Chi...

September 7, 2017 | Thursday | News
Scientists in China use nanoparticles to kill bacteria

Magnetic nanoparticle clusters have the power to punch through biofilms to reach bacteria that can foul water treatment ...

August 25, 2017 | Friday | News
Columbia China initiates its next hospital project

Columbia China, a 50-50 joint venture between Seattle’s Columbia Pacific Management and Singapore investment compa...

August 24, 2017 | Thursday | News
Fosun Pharma inks deal with Medidata

 In a bid to bring operational efficiency and improve data management, Chinese healthcare group Fosun Pharma has ad...

August 23, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Cambricon raises $100 M funding

Cambricon, an artificial intelligence (AI) chipmaker based in China, has raised $100 million in series A funding led by ...

August 23, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Medivir offloads China rights for Hepatitic C drug to Ascletis

Swedish drug giant Medivir recently announced that it has offloaded its exclusive rights to develop, manufacture and com...

August 21, 2017 | Monday | News
China to promote Ayurvedic medical science in Nepal

Visiting Chinese Vice-Premier, Wang Yang, on Wednesday pledged full support to Nepal for the development and promotion o...

August 17, 2017 | Thursday | News
Ankon raises $100 M from SBCVC

Ankon Technologies Co., Ltd., a U.S. and China-based company developing medical equipment for gastric diagnosis, has rai...

August 16, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Vista to provide high-end health care services

To cater to the increasing demand for exclusive health care services among the Chinese high net-worth, Vista, a veteran ...

August 16, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Shanghai Pharma inks deal with DHL to build global pharma network

Chinese pharma giant Shanghai pharma has inked a deal with contract logistics firm DHL Supply Chain to prepare its logis...

August 14, 2017 | Monday | News
GSK to close it neuroscience R&D center in China

According to reports, GSK China has planned to pull down shutters on its neuroscience R&D center located in Shanghai...

August 11, 2017 | Friday | News
WuXi AppTec promotes prospects of immunotherapy

WuXi AppTec, ­­the leading global pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical open access capability platform has ...

August 10, 2017 | Thursday | News
Just China secures closing of Series B financing

Dedicated to developing global antibody and recombinant protein bio-therapeutics, Hangzhou Just Biotherapeutics, Ltd. (J...

August 10, 2017 | Thursday | News
Indian govt may turn down chinese major pharma's offer to acquire Gland Pharma

If reports are to be believed, India is all set to block China’s Fosun Pharmaceutical Group’s proposed $1.3-...

August 1, 2017 | Tuesday | News
iKang forms partnership for healthcare investments

iKang Healthcare Group, Inc., a major provider in China’s fast growing private preventive healthcare services mark...

July 20, 2017 | Thursday | News
C-Bridge Capital closes second healthcare fund at $400 M

C-Bridge Capital, a Chinese private equity firm targeting the healthcare sector, has closed its second fund, C-Bridge He...

July 19, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Australia’s Cochlear plans expansion in China

Bionic ear implant maker Cochlear is expanding its global manufacturing capacity with a new $50 million facility in Chin...

July 14, 2017 | Friday | News
ShangPharma Innovation enters into partnership with UCSF

In a new collaboration, ShangPharma Innovation, Inc. (SPII) is providing funding and other support to scientists at UC S...

July 14, 2017 | Friday | News
Trovagene announces agreement with Novogene

Trovagene, Inc. has entered into an agreement with Novogene Co. Ltd., a leading global provider of genomic services and ...

July 13, 2017 | Thursday | News
Fosun Pharma to invest in new tech incubator

Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) Co. will spend $73.5 million to set up a technology innovation incubator which wil...

July 12, 2017 | Wednesday | News
NCRC in China signs agreement to use AI for breast cancer diagnosis

The National Clinical Research Center for Cancer (NCRCC) in China has signed a deal with the Institute of Computing Tech...

July 11, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Zai Lab raises $30 Million funding

Zai Lab Limited, a Shanghai-based innovative biopharmaceutical company has raised $30 million in a Series C preferred eq...

June 30, 2017 | Friday | News
China-US investors fund Vivace Therapeutics

Vivace Therapeutics, an oncology-focused portfolio-based drug discovery and development company is has raised $40 millio...

June 29, 2017 | Thursday | News
China’s iCarbonX invests in funding HealthLoop

iCarbonX, a Chinese health-related data mining and analysis firm, has joined a $8.4 million Series B financing round in ...

June 28, 2017 | Wednesday | News
iKang launches healthcare initiatives

iKang Healthcare Group, Inc., a major provider in China's fast-growing private preventive healthcare services market, an...

June 27, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Baheal Pharma brings Watson for genomics to China

Singapore: IBM Watson recently announced its plans to expand its partnership with Baheal Pharmaceutical, bringing Watson...

June 23, 2017 | Friday | News
International Yoga Day being celebrated in Beijing

On 21st June, around one thousand Chinese yoga practitioners will celebrate the International Yoga Day in Beijing, follo...

June 20, 2017 | Tuesday | News
BeauCare Clinics series B funding

GP Capital, a Shanghai-based investment firm backed by state-owned Shanghai International Group, has led a RMB200 millio...

June 16, 2017 | Friday | News
App for diagnosing skin diseases

A university hospital in Hunan province is developing an online service to accurately diagnose skin conditions in second...

June 15, 2017 | Thursday | News
CSL acquires major stake in Ruide China

CSL Limited has agreed to acquire 80 per cent equity of plasma-derived therapies manufacturer Wuhan Zhong Yuan Rui De Bi...

June 14, 2017 | Wednesday | News
New funding for PhiSkin

Legend Capital has led a RMB120 million (US$17 million) series B round in PhiSkin, a Shanghai-based aesthetic medical an...

June 13, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Jackson Lab associates with Chinese groups

The Jackson Laboratory has signed a collaborative clinical genomics research agreement with three groups in China. Spec...

June 8, 2017 | Thursday | News
Veloxis signs agreement with Italy’s Chiesi

Veloxis Pharmaceuticals announced that its U.S. subsidiary, Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., has entered into an exclusive...

June 8, 2017 | Thursday | News
Professionals from over 150 countries take part in The Health Industry Summit 2017

The Health Industry Summit (tHIS) 2017 hosted by China and organized by Reed Sinopharm, opened in Shanghai at the Nation...

June 1, 2017 | Thursday | News
Fertility specialist clinic open in Beijing

A New York reproduction health company opened a center in Beijing Saturday to help serve the growing number of infertile...

May 29, 2017 | Monday | News
Yaskawa, Midea launching nursing-care robot business in China

With an eye on China's rapidly aging population, a Japanese industrial robotics maker and a Chinese home appliance compa...

May 29, 2017 | Monday | News
Paper test strip designed for heart patients

A group of Chinese scientists have developed a new test strip that could potentially allow heart failure patients to do ...

May 26, 2017 | Friday | News
WuXi STA, CFDA and Jinshan Government to co-host Marketing Authorization Holder regulatory summit in Shanghai

STA Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (STA) a WuXi AppTec subsidiary and the leading open-access capability and technology platfo...

May 24, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Xynomic partners with UCSF for cancer drug trial

Xynomic Pharma, a US-China oncology startup, entered a strategic partnership with the University of California San Franc...

May 24, 2017 | Wednesday | News
CANbridge raises $25 Million for immuno-oncology drugs

CANbridge Life Sciences of Beijing completed a $25 million Series B round from China investors. The company, which has r...

May 24, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Agilent Technologies receives multiple awards in China

Agilent Technologies Inc. received three awards at the Annual Conference of China Scientific Instruments (ACCSI) 2017 in...

May 5, 2017 | Friday | News
WuXi NextCODE closes a $75 million Series B financing

WuXi NextCODE, the contract genomics organization (CGO) building the global standard platform for genomic data, has clos...

May 2, 2017 | Tuesday | News
A new test kit for early cancer detection

Scientists around the world are striving for effective detection of cancer in the early stages, and a Chinese scientist ...

May 2, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Medical institutes in China planning partnerships

Medical partnerships are being promoted across China by 2020 to provide patients with more sustainable and efficient hea...

April 27, 2017 | Thursday | News
BeiGene to build $330 mn biologics plant in China

Singapore: BeiGene, a Chinese biotech firm has joined hands with Guangzhou GET Technology Development, an affiliate of G...

March 9, 2017 | Thursday | News
“China will continue to rise as a key base for global pharmaceutical manufacturing”

It is undoubtedly an interesting time for the contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) sector, and par...

February 8, 2017 | Wednesday | Opinion
China updates list of key reimbursable medicines

Singapore: The Chinese Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security recently announced the updation of key list of me...

February 23, 2017 | Thursday | News
China's Vincent Medical holdings invests $3mn in an Isreali firm

Singapore: China's Vincent Medical Holdings has made a $3 million investment for a 15 percent stake in Isreal's InovyTec...

February 6, 2017 | Monday | News
India requests 'Green Channel' for export of drugs to China

Singapore: With a view to bridge the increasing trade gap between the two countries, Chinese vice Minister of finance an...

October 14, 2016 | Friday | News
Nearly 80% of data in Chinese clinical trials have been fabricated

Singapore: A recent investigation led by the Chinese State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) revealed that nearly 80 p...

October 3, 2016 | Monday | News
Stem cell scientist sues Nobel laureate for deception

Singapore: Dr Rongxiang Xu, a scientist who claims to be the founder of human body regenerative restoration science, has...

May 17, 2013 | Friday | News
Eli Lilly scientists accused of leaking trade secrets

Singapore: Two former Eli Lilly scientists have been accused by the US district court of divulging $55 million in trade ...

October 9, 2013 | Wednesday | News
GE ready with its innovation center in Chengdu

Singapore: General Electric has completed its China Innovation Center in Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan Province i...

June 1, 2012 | Friday | News
Vitro Diagnostics, StemGenesis tie up for China market

Singapore: Vitro Diagnostics has signed an agreement with StemGenesis for the exclusive distribution of its products in ...

September 13, 2012 | Thursday | News
Cellular launches stromal cell purification kit

Singapore: US-based Cellular Biomedicine is all set to launch 'A-Stromal', a  adipose stromal cell purification kit in ...

November 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News
BioNano installs gemnome chip in China, Israel univ

Singapore: BioNano Genomics is installing Irys Systems at Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and School of Chemistry...

October 29, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Hummingbird Bioscience, Sanofi to develop novel cancer therapeutics

Singapore: Hummingbird Bioscience, an innovative biotechnology company focused on the discovery and early development of...

April 22, 2016 | Friday | News
China's Ascentage Pharma joins hands with UNITY Biotechnology

Singapore: China's clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, Ascentage Pharma, announced collaboration with San Francisc...

April 26, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Chinese Ebola vaccine enters clinical trials

Singapore: According to a Chinese news agency, the country's regulators have approved a domestically developed experimen...

December 19, 2014 | Friday | News
Chinese drugs contain oil from restaurant drains

Singapore: A recent report by the Chinese national media has claimed that gutter oil is being used to make antibiotics, ...

September 6, 2012 | Thursday | News
CellSearch 'liquid biopsy' approved in China

Singapore: China State Food & Drug Administration (SFDA) has approved CellSearch, circulating tumor cell (CTC) test ...

December 13, 2012 | Thursday | News
Pfizer invests $350 mn to build a biotech hub in China

Singapore: Global drug giant Pfizer has recently announced plans to invest $350 mn to build a Global Biotechnology Cente...

July 7, 2016 | Thursday | News
GSK sells thrombosis brands to Aspen for $1.1 bn

Singapore: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has agreed to sell its thrombosis brands, Arixtra and Fraxiparine, and Notre-Dame de Bo...

October 1, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Cytori, Lorem to commercialize Cytori Cell Therapy

Singapore: US-based Cytori Therapeutics and China-based Lorem Vascular have formed a partnership to commercialize Cytori...

November 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Shanghai to host 'MEDTEC China 2014'

Singapore: With the objective to promote high-end medical equipment localization, China is holding MEDTEC China 2014 sum...

July 8, 2014 | Tuesday | News

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